I love receiving packages in the mail from my Mum. It almost takes a yard sale of the crown jewels to pay for overseas postage by Royal (or U.S) Mail these days, it seems and I'm not sure why international missives take twice as long as they used to for delivery either side of the pond, but bitching and moaning aside, a UK package on the front porch is the best!
Since my lovely Mum and Dad decided to undertake a massive overhaul of the great piles of neatly organized, stored-stuff gathered over the course of close to half a century in their marital home, several random selections of historic news clippings, souvenir newspapers and magazines have been sent my way.
Seeings as I'm the only one sentimental enough to encourage much of the keeping of such items as curling, yellowing newsprint from the 1950s, I'm starting a stack of these transplanted, vintage treasures, State-side. Though I did spot the Italian husband eyeing yesterday's delivery somewhat dubiously, I convinced him of the merit of such a marvelous stash and this particular lot's insight into the early days of the Queen of England's now 60 year reign.
So as not to keep it all to myself, I thought I'd share the ad for a series of compelling articles that ran exclusively in the Daily Mail following Elizabeth's Ascension to the throne.
The 'Feminine Point of View' promised an 'illuminating, controversial' challenging document entitled: "Can Women Change the World?"
I wonder how the 28 leading women of Britain, interviewed in the series in the early 1950s would tackle the feminine point of view, today. I wonder what my grandmother made of the series, for these were her saved souvenirs of time-gone-by. All the more enticing to hang on to some of the news items of today.
How will our future generations stumble across our digital keepsakes? Food for thought.
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